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RECENT RELEASES
LAMBERT ORKIS, PIANO
WITH ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER, VIOLIN
1. Beethoven: The Complete Violin Sonatas
Includes the 10 sonatas in conjunction with the performances at the Reingau Musik
Festival, Wiesbaden, Germany, August, 1998.
Includes Schott CD-pluscore for Sonatas #1, #5, #7, #10
Recipient of the Grammy award for “Best Chamber Music Performance”
Recipient of a Critic’s Choice Award, a National Public Radio Performance Today
Award
Deutsche Grammophon. Compact Disc: 457-619-2 [4 CDs]
2. Beethoven: The Complete Violin Sonatas (DVD)
Includes the 10 sonatas in conjunction with the Paris performances, October, 1998, and
a documentary entitled “A Life with Beethoven”
Deutsche Grammophon. 073 014-9 (2 discs)
3. Recital 2000
Prokofiev: Sonata for Violin and Piano in D Major, Op. 94a
Crumb: Four Nocturnes, (Night Music II)
Webern: Four Pieces, Op. 7
Respighi: Sonata for Violin and Piano in b minor
Deutsche Grammophon. Compact Disc: 469 503-2
4. Tango Song and Dance
Fauré
Brahms
Kreisler
Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 13
Hungarian Dances
No. 1 in G Minor
No. 6 in B-flat Major
No. 7 in A Major
Schön Rosmarin
Caprice Viennois
Liebesleid
Deutsche Grammophon B0000058-02
5. Mozart: The Violin Sonatas
Includes 16 sonatas in conjunction with the performances in Munich, Germany,
February 2006.
Recipient of the “Choc de l’année” award from Le Monde de la Musique
Deutsche Grammophon 00289 477 5801 [4 discs]
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6. Mozart: The Violin Sonatas (DVD) (to be released in the U.S. on October 9, 2007)
Includes 16 sonatas in conjunction with the performances in Munich, Germany,
February 2006.
Deutsche Grammophon B000724309 [2 discs]
SOLO RECORDINGS FOR BRIDGE RECORDS
1. From Hammers to Bytes
This disc contains two works commissioned by and written for Lambert Orkis.
The works were premiered in Philadelphia at The Curtis Institute of Music in
April 2002. Works performed:
Richard Wernick
Piano Sonata No. 2 (2000)
James Primosch
Sonata-Fantasia (2001)
For piano and synthesizer, one player
Bridge Records (Bridge 9131)
2. Beethoven: The Appassionata Sonata
This disc contains Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata performed by Lambert Orkis
on two different fortepianos and one piano, all of Viennese design.
Bridge Records (Bridge 9169)
3. Gottschalk: Music for Piano
Lambert Orkis performs on an 1865 Chickering Concert grand piano from the
collections of the Smithsonian Institution, Remastered from Smithsonian
Collection of Recordings ND033.
A portion of all sales of this disc will go to the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of
Southern Jewish Life.
Bridge Records (Bridge 9206)
WITH STEVEN DANN, VIOLA; Susan Platts, Mezzo-soprano
Brahms: Sonata in f minor for Viola and Piano, Op. 120, No. 1
Brahms: Sonata in E Flat Major for Viola and Piano, Op. 120, No. 2
Brahms: Two Songs for Alto Voice, Viola and Piano, Op. 91
Atma Classique (ACD2 2350)
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WITH KENNEDY CENTER CHAMBER PLAYERS
Nurit Bar-Josef, violin
Daniel Foster, viola
David Hardy, cello
Lambert Orkis, piano
Brahms: Piano Quartet in g minor, Op. 25
Recording currently available only through the Kennedy Center Gift Shop and
through the Gift Shop page of the Kennedy Center website:
www.kennedy-center.org.
WITH THE 20TH CENTURY CONSORT
1. This disc contains three works that were originally released in the 1980’s on LPs and
one work (Morrill) which is released here for the first time. Works performed:
George Crumb
Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV) (1979)
Cosmic Dances for Amplified Piano, Four Hands
with James Primosch, piano
Maurice Wright
Chamber Symphony (1977)
for Piano and Electronic Sounds
William Penn
Fantasy for Solo Harpsichord (1973)
Dexter Morrill
Fantasy Quintet (1977-78)
for Piano and Computer
innova Recordings (innova 605)
2. This disc contains two works that were originally released in the 1980’s on LPs and
one work (Doppmann) which is released here for the first time. The disc features
soprano Lucy Shelton. Works performed:
Joseph Schwantner
Sparrows (1979)
for soprano and nine instruments
Richard Wernick
A Poison Tree (1979)
for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano
William Doppmann
Spring Songs (1981)
for soprano, clarinet, percussion, piano
innova Recordings (innova 606)
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3. This disc contains two works that were originally released in the 1980’s on LPs and
one work (Schindler) which is released here for the first time. Works performed:
George Rochberg
Electrikaleidoscope (1972)
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano
Allan Schindler
Take Me Places (1979)
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, piano
Joseph Schwantner
Elixir (1976)
for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano
innova Recordings (innova 633)
WITH CASTLE TRIO (period instruments)
Lambert Orkis, fortepiano
Marilyn McDonald, violin
Kenneth Slowik, cello
1.
BEETHOVEN PIANO TRIOS
CD 1
Trio in E Flat Major, Op. 1, No. 1
Trio in G Major, Op. 1, No. 2
CD 2
Trio in c minor, Op. 1, No. 3
Trio in B Flat Major, Op. 11
Trio in E Flat Major, WoO 38
Trio in B Flat Major, WoO 39
Virgin Veritas 7243 5 61931 2 3 [2 CDs]
This re-release is a compilation of separate CDs which were first released in the early 1990s.
2.
BEETHOVEN AND SCHUBERT PIANO TRIOS
CD 1 - Beethoven
Piano Trio in B Flat Major, Op. 97 “Archduke”
Variations on an original theme in E Flat Major, Op. 44
Variations on Wenzel Müller’s ‘Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu’, Op. 121a
CD 2 – Schubert
Piano Trio in E Flat Major, Op. 100, D929
Sonatensatz in B Flat Major, D28
Virgin Veritas 7243 5 62007 2 3 [2 CDs]
This re-release is a compilation of separate CDs which were first released in the early 1990s.